Shifting Perspectives: Your patch 4.3 feral cheat sheet

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Welcome to our feral cat edition, brought to you by Chase Hasbrouck, aka Alaron of The Fluid Druid blog. Let the face clawing begin! Patch 4.3 is upon us. It’s time to take down Deathwing. Are you prepared? If not, fear not: This handy cheat sheet will sum up all the feral changes you need to know to keep you performing at your best. (As always, thanks to Tangedyn and Yawning for their invaluable analysis; make sure to check out Mew , if you haven’t already.) I’m going to put this right up front, since this is easily the most frequent question I receive: What should I reforge to, and what are my stat priorities? Easy — it doesn’t matter. Seriously. All of the secondary stats (mastery, haste, crit, hit, expertise) are roughly equal in value for DPS purposes. This was the case in 4.2, and it remains the case in 4.3. (To put a more exact number on it, it’s a roughly 1% DPS difference, which is well within the margin of error for any given fight.) My personal preference remains the same: Cap hit and expertise (960/780 rating, respectively) to reduce rotational unpredictability, which has benefits that aren’t captured by computer simulations that play perfectly. By all means, however, reforge to whatever you prefer; just make sure you’re still gemming and enchanting your gear, going for agility wherever possible. OK, on to the interesting stuff. Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Your patch 4.3 feral cheat sheet Filed under: (Druid) Shifting Perspectives Shifting Perspectives: Your patch 4.3 feral cheat sheet originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink